We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country

There is but one art, to omit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Craig Ferguson

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Sebastian Junger

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Wayne Dyer

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Jodi Picoult

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Ernest Hemingway

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Miguel de Unamuno

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...

John Geddes

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Harvey Weinstein

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

St. Ignatius Loyola